Overview
- First international, comparative and transnational study of landscapes and the First World War
- Includes chapters on the USA, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Europe, demonstrating the effects of war on landscapes far beyond the familiar setting of the Western Front
- Brings together scholars working across disciplinary and methodological boundaries, including contributions from emerging fields such as battlefield archaeology, medical humanities and environmental history
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This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industrial and urban landscapes, cross-cultural encounters, and legacies of the war. The chapters cover Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and the US, drawing on a range of approaches including battlefield archaeology, military history, medical humanities, architecture, literary analysis and environmental history.
This volume explores the environmental impact of the war on diverse landscapes and how landscapes shaped soldiers’ experiences at the front. It investigates how rural and urban locales were mobilised to cater to the demands of industry and agriculture. The enduring physical scars and the role of landscape as a crucial locus of memory and commemoration are also analysed.The chapter 'The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Environment, Climate and Weather at War
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Urban and Industrial Landscapes Transformed
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Cross-Cultural Encounters With Landscapes
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Legacies of the First World War in Landscapes
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Selena Daly is a Lecturer in Italian Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Her monograph, Italian Futurism and the First World War, (2016), was nominated for the Italian-American bilateral Bridge Book Prize.
Martina Salvante is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she is working on a project on Italy’s disabled veterans of the First World War. She has published widely on Italian history with a focus on gender, masculinity, and war disability.
Vanda Wilcox is a Lecturer in Modern European History at John Cabot University, Italy, and Trinity College, Rome Campus, Italy. She is the author of Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War (2016), and is currently researching imperial and colonial dimensions of Italianparticipation in the Great War.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscapes of the First World War
Editors: Selena Daly, Martina Salvante, Vanda Wilcox
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89411-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89410-2Published: 13 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07763-1Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89411-9Published: 30 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Military, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Urban History